The Reif Center is a proud recipient of a CMA Residency Partnership Grant for the 2015-2016 performance season. Our venue will be working with the Artaria String Quartet of Minneapolis, MN during two in-house residencies.

07/08/15

So Percussion is excited to have received a 2015 CMA Classical Commissioning grant to commission Paul Lansky! The piece will be written for mostly unpitched percussion, having been inspired by Paul's electronic masterpiece "Table's Clear", which featured sounds he recorded at his kitchen table with his children.

07/08/15

We are honored and excited to be recipents of CMA's 2015 Classical Commissiong Grant! Composer Alex Mincek will be writing a substansial new piece for our piano percussion quartet instrumentation to be premiered as part of Miller Theatre's "Composer Portraits" Series on February 25th, 2016. We could not be more thrilled!

Quintet of the Americas will present The Melting Pot, concerts on June 9 at The Salvation Army in Jackson Heights and June 11 at Catholic Charities Bayside Senior Center in Bayside, NY, with music by Daniel Ott, Valerie Coleman, Xinyan Li, Stuart Balcomb, Mohammed Fairouz, Ljova, Gunther Schuller and Carlos Franzetti.

07/07/15

Quintet of the Americas will present The Melting Pot, a concert at Queens Botanical Garden including a new work by Daniel Ott, and music by Stuart Balcomb, Valerie Coleman, Xinyan Li, Carl MaultsBy, Lev Zhurbin, Louis Ballard and Carlos Franzetti.

07/07/15

Quintet of the Americas will present Musical Color in the Garden, a concert at Queens Botanical Garden. Music includes works by Marcus Redden, John Steinmetz, Edward MacDowell, Luis Calvo, Duke Ellington, Matt Sullivan and a new work by Xinyan Li.

07/07/15

Quintet of the Americas will present A Celebration of Queens Composers on March 23 at the Flushing Branch of Queens Library, featuring woodwind quintets by Beata Moon, James Cohn, Dylan Glatthorn, Christopher Caliendo and the premiere of a new work based on Tibetan influence by Xinyan Li.